page_title: 1943
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 1943 / Deaths / October
caption_attribution_description: Pieter Zeeman
context_page_description: 1943 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1943rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 943rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 43rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1940s decade.
context_section_description: October 2
  Carlos Blanco Galindo, 38th President of Bolivia (b. 1882)
  Muhamed Hadžiefendić, Yugoslav army officer (killed by partisans) (b. 1898)
  October 4 – Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish general (murdered) (b. 1906)
  October 5
  Ludwig von Estorff, German general (b. 1859)
  Leon Roppolo, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1902)
  October 6 – Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln, Hungarian adventurer (b. 1879)
  October 7 – Prince Christoph of Hesse (aviation accident) (b. 1901)
  October 8
  Marianne Golz, Austrian-born opera singer, World War II resistance member (executed) (b. 1895)
  Wilhelm Hegeler, German novelist (b. 1870)
  October 9 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
  October 12 – Max Wertheimer, Austro-Hungarian psychologist (b. 1880)
  October 14
  Rudolf Beckmann, German SS officer (Sobibór uprising) (b. 1910)
  Siegfried Graetschus, German SS officer (Sobibór uprising) (b. 1916)
  Johann Niemann, German SS officer (Sobibór uprising) (b. 1913)
  October 15 – William Penhallow Henderson, American painter, architect and furniture designer (b. 1877)
  October 18 – Margaret Bartholomew, American Civil Air Patrol officer (aviation accident on mission) (b. 1903)
  October 19 – Camille Claudel, French sculptor (b. 1864)
  October 21 – Sir Dudley Pound, British admiral (b. 1877)
  October 22 – William Reginald Hall, British admiral (b. 1870)
  October 23
  André Antoine, French actor (b. 1858)
  Ben Bernie, American jazz violinist (b. 1891)
  Antonio Legnani, Italian admiral (automobile accident) (b. 1888)
  Franceska Mann, Polish dancer (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1917)
  October 24 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet, lawyer (b. 1912)
  October 28 – Sir Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born British archaeologist (b. 1862)
  October 30 – Max Reinhardt, Austrian director (b. 1873)
caption: Pieter Zeeman
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